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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
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Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Still humping the American Dream
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And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
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Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.
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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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[Where the Buffalo Roam is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.
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I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
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Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.
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Without gambling, I would not exist.
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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A man has to BE something he has to matter.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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